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https://zeta.one/viral-math/

I wrote a (very long) blog post about those viral math problems and am looking for feedback, especially from people who are not convinced that the problem is ambiguous.

It's about a 30min read so thank you in advance if you really take the time to read it, but I think it's worth it if you joined such discussions in the past, but I'm probably biased because I wrote it :)

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[–] Brak@hexbear.net 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm talking like 4+1x2 and a bunch of people were saying it was 10.

agony-shivering

the answer is 6 though, right?

[–] fallingcats@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No, the aswer clearly is 2x+4.

[–] Brak@hexbear.net 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] fallingcats@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 7 months ago

I refuse to accept x as a multiplication sign. Multiplication ist either or maybe * but never x and certainly not ×, because that's a cross product